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Taylor, Walton and Young suggest that working‑class youth choose to commit crime because of their experience of the injustices of capitalism in terms of inequalities in wealth and power.

Gilroy argues that black street‑crime reflects young black people's anger at the way that white society has historically treated black people via slavery and colonialism and is a rational political response to everyday prejudice and discrimination, especially police harassment.

Albert Cohen used the term status frustration to explain why so many young people who committed offences were from working class backgrounds. Cohen argued that the reason for this was their feeling of low self-esteem and low status gained at school.

According to Cohen, working class boys are more likely to fail at school and consequently feel humiliated. In an attempt to deal with this and gain some status amongst their peers, they develop sub-cultures which invert traditional middle class values such as obedience, politeness and obeying the law. Instead, they behave badly and engage in a variety of antisocial behaviour. Within the norms and values of the sub-culture, this behaviour provides them status.

Recent postmodernist approaches reject the idea that youth offending can be explained in terms of some rational reason why subcultures develop. Instead they argue that emotions are important.

Katz argues that crime is seductive – young males are attracted to it because it is thrilling. This could explain why so much young offending is not for financial gain, but for ‘kicks’. There is a simple pleasure in destroying a bus shelter or ‘tagging’ a police car.

Similarly, Lyng argues that young males like to engage in ‘edgework’, which he explains as deliberately flirting with danger. This could explain the ‘buzz’ of stealing cars and driving at speed.

Mac En Ghaillsuggests that as the workforce becomes more feminised and job opportunities for young men decline, young males may be experiencing a 'crisis of masculinity'.

It is argued that this crisis may be resolved for some young men by joining anti‑school subcultures and being involved in violence and crime in wider society because this type of behaviour may be an alternative form of asserting traditional masculinity.